Naren Chittar

Current

• Staff Engineer. Search Engine Group at eBay

Past

• Staff Engineer at AgileTV/Promptu
• Lead Software Designer at Wizion
• Software Engineer at Citigroup (COSL)

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Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
• Stanford University

Connections

98 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My comic strip about Arjumya

Naren Chittar’s Experience

• Staff Engineer. Search Engine Group

  eBay

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ebay; Internet industry)

  June 2008 — Present (2 months)

• Staff Engineer

  AgileTV/Promptu

  (Computer Software industry)

  May 2001 — May 2008 (7 years 1 month)

  Working in the areas of :
  . speech and text processing
  . automatic speech recognition.

• Lead Software Designer

  Wizion

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2000 — April 2001 (1 year)

  Architected a telephony based application that used speech recognition and synthesis to deliver information from web.

• Software Engineer

  Citigroup (COSL)

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  July 1997 — December 1998 (1 year 6 months)

  Developed a re-usable client server API framework for security tasks like authentication, authorization, single sign-on.

Naren Chittar’s Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  B.Tech, Electrical Engg, 1993 — 1997

• Stanford University

  M.S, Electrical Engineering (currently enrolled)

  I am specializing in the areas of machine learning , natural language processing, information retrieval, web search and data mining.
  
  Courses:
  * Statistical Signal Processing (Abbas El Gamal)
  * Statistical Learning (Tibshirani & Jerome Friedman)
  * Text Mining and Retrieval (Manning & Prabhakar)
  * Information Theory (Tsachy Weissman)
  * Data Mining and Electronic Business (Andreas Weigend)
  * Speech Recognition and Synthesis (Dan Jurafsky)
  * Natural Language Processing (Chris Manning)
  * Probablistic Models (Daphne Koller)
  * Computer Vision
  
  
  page at Stanford:
  http://www.stanford.edu/~nchittar/

Additional Information

Naren Chittar’s Websites:

• My comic strip about Arjumya

Naren Chittar’s Groups:

•    Citicorp Software Alumni member
•    IIT Alumni member

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